Projects

Highway 149 The Cabinet has given its approval for diversion of State Highway-149 passing through Naval Land at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh. It involves: a) Taking over of 11.25 acres of land of the Government of Andhra Pradesh underneath the...

NEDO MoU The Union Cabinet has approved the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) among New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan, Indian institutes. The MoU involves Ministries of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs), Health & Family Welfare...

Ganga rejuvenation Team leaders working on Ganga rejuvenation. Best practices have been documented for the rejuvenation of Ganga river, with project completion deadline of 2030. The mega project, across India’s largest river, starts from the Hindon basin. Over the course of...

Monumental Task Xu on Ganga: "It is a monumental task." Cleaning of River Ganga is a "monumental task" and requires efforts by the whole society, a top UN official said in Singapore on November 23, 2016. "It cannot be cleaned...

Axalta serves school meals Axalta Coating Systems (NYSE: AXTA), a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, has partnered with Akshaya Patra’s food program for the second consecutive year to provide better education by serving meals to children in...

Submarine plan Parrikar on Submarine Plan. The government is to order Rs.3 lakh crore worth of defence acquisition on cumulative basis by the end of this financial year, having cleared more than Rs2 lakh crore since 2014. Disclosing this, Defence...

Policies boost power investments Singapore's Sembcorp investment in power sector reflects foreign investors' confidence in the Indian market. Favourable government policies have boosted private investments in power generation over the last decade and resulted in significant capacity additions, says Federation...

Waste to Energy The Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has received 53 proposals from 22 states with potential to generate 405.3 MW of Waste to Energy plants which are currently under various stages of construction or tendering. Waste to Energy...

NEP on bold announcements The National Energy Policy (NEP) aims to chart the way forward to meet the Government’s bold announcements in the energy domain, Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for the Ministry of Power, Coal, New and...

Wind energy guidelines Wind energy: MNRE issues guidelines. The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has issued final Guidelines for the development of onshore wind projects on 22 October 2016, said Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power,...